MCA Live: BOOMERANG, For the toward

Apr 22, 2017 12:00–4:25 pm

MCA Plaza

Announcement

PLEASE NOTE: This event was originally scheduled on April 1.

Featured image

Photograph of two nude headless male torsos seen from behind against a black background. Round metal discs rest on their shoulder in place of heads. — Boomerang, For the toward, 2014
Photo: Kora Radella

About

On select Saturdays during Merce Cunningham: Common Time, local dance companies engage with Merce's conviction of “common time” to activate the driving themes and concepts behind the exhibition. These collaborative and cross-disciplinary performances demonstrate overlapping relationships between movement, music, fashion, architecture, social media, set, and lighting design.

In an outdoor performance of For the toward by BOOMERANG, vibrant and athletic performers Matty Davis and Will Arbery interact with steel objects, building nails, and poetic texts all while balancing on, pitching, and catching sculptures that weigh between 15 and 35 pounds. Expect nontraditional choreography and formidable displays of strength punctuated by startlingly tender moments of intimacy. The 25-minute performance will cycle five times on the hour starting at noon with the final performance at 4 pm.